Multiple Digg Digg problems, I've given up on it. (29 posts)

I am having all sorts of problems with the Digg Digg plugin and have finally turned it off on all my sites. I have at least 3 problems.

1. With a number of sites, though not all, I am finding that the bar floats fine in Chrome, but in Firefox and IE it sits right in the middle of the page directly over the middle of the content.

2. On one of these sites I am also getting, sitting right at the top of my content, this error message, (along with the bar floating in the middle of the content):

Warning: file_get_contents(http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json/urlinfo/data?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdomain.com%2F) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity in /home/domain/public_html/wp-content/plugins/digg-digg/include/dd-class.php on line 1726

3. On one site I am finding, on several occasions, that my entire sidebar fails to load, in all browsers. If I switch Digg Digg off then it loads fine.

I have 4 or 5 sites all with Digg Digg on, and all have one or more of these problems. I have given up and switched it off on all sites now.

All help much appreciated, I love it but it just isn't working. Leo?
Peter

I'm experiencing a similar issue to your #1. In my case, the bar appears perfectly in Chrome, but doesn't appear AT ALL in Firefox or IE. However, I have a feeling it's a positioning issue, because if I watch what's loading at the bottom of my browser, I can see that the Google +, Pinterest, etc. buttons are LOADING... I just can't see them. This is also a recent issue; I think it broke with the last Digg Digg update.

I got a duct tape type solution to problem #1 until Digg Digg figures this out.

I think that in my case, the digg digg bar was trying to position itself 80 pix to the LEFT of the RIGHT edge of the picture in my post in IE and FF. This was putting my bar in the middle of the content.

To give the bar something to position itself against, I put a 1x1 gif as the first thing in my post.

There you go. I gave up on it and pulled it off my sites and put getsocial on. Worked fine. 6 sites.

But then I upgraded getsocial and it broke 3 of my sites, all content completely gone and an error message on the page. I downgraded to the previous version and all worked well again, so I'm not upgrading.

It seems that there's problems with them all!

So today I took one site, put digg digg back on it and turned it on and enabled floating bar.

No sign of the bar in any browser, so back to an old version of getsocial for me!

Hi Peter,
Just fired a quick email over in case there might be a chance you didn't get the below.

Really appreciate you tried out Digg Digg again on one site of yours. You mentioned, that it wasn't showing up at all then. Was that for individual posts or on the landing page? The thing is that we have removed the option to display the floating bar on the landing page, as it didn't make a lot of sense to share a home page.

If there is any chance, could you let me know if the floating bar also isn't working on the individual pages for the site you have tried it out on?

Keen to get things working well for you as soon as possible!

Best,

PS: You guys are all amazing for letting us know about the issues, we will be iterating again and again until the plugin just works seamlessly on every blog! :)

Yes I'm a definite vote for the homepage, I've stuck to getsocial, even though it's got it's own problems now, just because it's available on the homepage. I get most of my visitors on the homepage and so that's the place to get the likes.

But it seems that Digg does work ok now for me, though I only tried it on one site, not all.

Hi - Just upgraded to version 5.2.3 and having bit of trouble.
I think the Lazy loading option for floating display is broken or it's so lazy it went to sleep :) I've temporarily fixed my problem by just using the standard embed.
The other issue is that the floating display is too far over my content, I suspect that a css issue.
-oh just remembered the floating layout is not scrolling down the page.

Yes, so we have identified what the problem is here. If you just go into your Floating Bar Settings, and turn off the "email button", then all should float normally again and also not cover the content anymore. Any chance you could try this and see if it fixes it all?

I can't seem to get the DIGG working in Chrome at all. The bar displays in the correct location yet only presents the tweet button in chrome but when I view it in IE or Firefox, it displays properly. I have this problem on two sites.

Thanks Peter ... the only thing with getsocial, is that I don't see an e-mail-share option on there ... and I'd like that ... and obviously looking for the most lightweight thing, but I'd like it floating on the left side ...